Flash light



H. G. WATSON FLASH LIGHT Dec. 1 1925.

Original Filedv June 7, 192

m a av M Patented Dec. 1., 1925. I

HARRY G. WATSON, OF FAIRBANKS, TERRITORY OF ALASKA.

' FLASH LIGHT.

Application filed June 7, 1924, Serial No. 718,586. Renewed August26,1925.

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, HARRY G. WATSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Flash Lights, of which the following is aspecification. v

This invention relates to flashlights, and it consists in the novelfeatures hereinafter described and claimed.

An objectof the invention is to provide, in a flashlightstructure,'means for generating an electric current, and means forconducting the current to a bulb provided upon wound, and which isoperatively connected with the generator.

In the accompanying drawing, Figurel is a sectional view of theflashlight.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of the flashlight, taken on theline 2-2 of Fi re 1.

.As lllustratedin the accompanying drawing, the flashlight comprises acasing 1,

which is of general elliptical shape. A

hanger 2 is provided in the casing 1, and

a bracket 3 is mounted upon said hanger. A socket 4 is carried by thebracket 3 and is adapted to receive a lamp bulb 5. A reflector 6'ismounted upon the socket 4, and houses the bulb and passes through theside of the casing 1. A lens 7 is carried at the outer portion of thereflector 6. A generator-.8 is mounted upon thechanger and its shaft isprovided with a gear wheel 9, which is operatively connected by means ofa train of gear wheels 10, with a shaft 11, which is 'ournalled in thecasing 1.

shaft 11.1s disposed transversely across a spring actuated barrel '12which is housed within the casing 1. The terminal gear wheel of thetrain 10 meshes with a gear wheel 13, which is mounted "upon the'side. Ibf the spring barrel 12. A train of gear The ly connected with one ofthe terminal gear wheels-of the train 14, as best shown in Figure 2 ofthe drawings.

, When the spring of the barrel 12 is wound up by turning the crankhandle 16, rotary .movement is transmitted from the barrel through thetrain of gear wheels 10, to the shaft of the generator 8, whereby anelectric current is generated, and the said current passes from thegenerator over conductor wires 17 to the lamp. bulb 5, which isilluminated. T-he lampibulb 5 will remain illuminated, so long as thespring'of the barrel 12, is in a wound condition, and in practice, it isfound that the bulb will remain in an illuminated condition, for aperiod of nme or ten minutes.

Having'described the invention, what is' claimed is:

In combination,. a casing, a hanger' depending from an intermediateportion of the top of thecasing, 'shafts journaled 'between the innerend of'the hanger and one laterally of the intermediate portion of thehanger and terminating in a socket, an electric bulb in the socket,wires electrically -withthe pinion, and a motor in the casing on theopposite side of the hanger than is disposed the bracket, and one ofsaid shafts operatively connected with the motor.

In testimony whereof I 'aflix my signature.

HARRY er. WATSON.

-end of the casing, a bracket extending

